Gov. Dannel P. Malloy recently announced the nomination of Lt. Colonel Sean Connolly of Hebron to serve as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Veterans' Affairs. Connolly currently works with Pratt and Whitney as the global ethics and compliance officer.He is also a Lt. Colonel in the...

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The East Catholic/Glastonbury/South Windsor girls' hockey team forced Simsbury into overtime in the SCC finals, but an unlucky bounce kept the Eagles/Tomahawks/Bobcats, known as ETB, from claiming the title.

The Rockville High School boys' basketball team won its final game of the season, beating neighborly rival Ellington 76-68 on Feb. 24. The win didn't improve the team's record enough to qualify the Rams for postseason play, but besides sending the team off on a winning note, it was also one for...

The GHS girls' basketball team finished the regular season with a 56-48 win over Wethersfield on Feb. 17 and locked in a 13-7 record. The Lady Tomahawks dropped their opening round game in the CCC tourney to Northwest Catholic on Feb. 19 , but will be the likely 17 seed in the Class LL...

The Glastonbury High School boys' varsity basketball team has qualified for the Class LL state tournament, but coach Jim Vaughan admits his team will have to find some more consistency if it is to make a deep run.

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This long, cold winter has many of us longing for signs of spring. How many more snow storms before spring finally comes? One way to do this is to bring in some branches of flowering trees and shrubs for forcing. What can be more hopeful that a bouquet of sunny, yellow forsythia on a dreary...

Local historian Bev York introduced a new season of tours on Saturday, Feb. 28 with a talk entitled "Mill Hazards and Disasters: Tragedies in Textile Manufacturing Past and Present." This year the popular series, hosted by the Windham Textile and History Museum, has been renamed "Trip of the...

African-Americans have had a long presence in Connecticut. At a Feb. 25 program at the Windsor Historical Society, Elizabeth Normen, publisher of the magazine "Connecticut Explored," said she felt it was only natural to compile a book about the long arc of their experience in the state.

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GROW Windham/The Windham Regional Community Council hosted the first in a series of two Community Dialogues on Saturday, Feb. 28 at Windham Middle School. The dialogues are part of a USDA-funded planning project calledThe Windham Community Food Network, a collaboration led by GROW...

Two Windsor Board of Education members - Melissa Rizzo-Holmes and Michaela Fissell-Fryxell - have begun a blog called "Windsor Rights," in which they plan to discuss the different issues the Board is facing throughout the school year. These two Republican members of the Board have been making...